Despite recent economic uncertainty, Asia’s middle class is growing fast. In the coming decades, this burgeoning demographic segment will serve as a keystone for economic and political development in the region, with significant implications for the rest of the world.
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Six months after Thomas Piketty's book
Capital in the Twenty-First Century generated so much buzz in the US and Europe, it has become a bestseller in Japan. But vast differences between Japan and its developed counterparts in the West, mean that Piketty's argument, like so many Western exports, has taken on unique characteristics.
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Oscar has spoken: Neither "Leviathan," the Russian film nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, nor "American Sniper," nominated for Best Picture, won. Yet both, in a way, remain the most representative films of the year, capturing why Russia and the US now seem doomed to wage a new Cold War.
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Most people around the world agree that men and women should be treated equally, and we also know that empowering women is a highly effective way to help families and societies lift themselves out of poverty. So how can we achieve the most gender equality at the lowest cost?
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Last month, media worldwide were buzzing about Pope Francis's statement that Catholics should practice “responsible parenthood," rather than breeding “like rabbits." But fewer reported another, more problematic comment he made on the subject: no outside institution should impose its views about regulating family size on the developing world.
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